From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Dec 8 12:42:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA08861 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 12:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA08845 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 12:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA23714; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:42:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA12889; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:41:59 -0700 Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:41:59 -0700 Message-Id: <199712082041.NAA12889@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: isa.c In-Reply-To: References: <199712081829.LAA12105@mt.sri.com> <199712081942.MAA12478@mt.sri.com> <199712081951.MAA12645@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > You'd be much better off upgrading to 2.2.5R, as I suspect his patches > > > > apply to that pretty cleanly. > > > I have a list of good reasons for not upgrading to 2.2.2R, and a > > > longer one for not upgrading to 2.2.5R. > > And those would be? > > Amongst other items, lack of a suitable backup device No need to backup. It's a piece of cake to upgrade w/out doing a backup/restore. Just download the sources, do a 'make world', re-config and install a new kernel, and reboot. A few hours work, but certainly not rocket science. > and reports of degraded performance in 2.2.5R. I haven't seen many of those reports, and I haven't experienced any personally. I'd be willing to bet that some of the 'degraded performance' reports may be due to bugfixes that cause the system to behave a little less 'agressively' that caused problems. You can always make things go faster, but not always safer. :) Nate